People may watch Crime Dramas as a way to escape from there own lives. The suspence and excitment of watching the crime drama may make people forget about the stress and upset of whats going on in there lives. The tension that crime dramas bring make people fixed on them and concentrate on what is happening which makes them zone out and forget about all the problems. Crime dramas also can become part of your routine where you look forward to them being on every week. They may also become part of your routine because you want to know what happens next or what differnet event is going to happen in the next episode, therefore audiences enjoy watching them and look forward to when they will next be on.
Audiences may also enjoy watching Crime Dramas for emotional support. By watching crime dramas you may feel like you can interact with the characters causing you to feel things torwards the character and the programme. This may help people with personal relationships and emotionalproblems because the person may feel the characters feels the same as them therefore feeling like they can connect with the character and share the way they feel even though the character isnt actually real. This works with crime dramas because crime dramas can show a lot of different emotions like, anxiety, fear, anger.
People may enjoy watching Crime Dramas as you can learn things from them, in some crime dramas you may learn more about the criminal justic system and how that works, in some you may learn more about the jobs a police officer or detective does which may interest you and make you change the way you think and feel about society. People may enjoy this because they are learning about things they are interested in as well as being entertained.
Crime Dramas may teach you certain things that you need to know to live, for example it may teach somebody about self defence which you may need either now or later in your life. People may also enjoy them because they teach you about policing and the way the law works which is helpful in your life as well.
Thoughtful, well-considered responses here. You can develop this further by giving specific examples of TV drama and by applying the audience theory we have learned about to the genre. How can the 'uses and gratifications' reading relate to your ideas about audiences for TV dramas? Compare your ideas to those of the theorists and researchers. Think about the context of TV drama - what is being made now compared to what series were popular in the past and why. Also - attention to detail. Careful with spellings and watch out for their/there/they're! Ms Keenan.
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